Year Established: 2006
Licensed Location/s: Malta Gaming Authority, Malta and United Kingdom Gambling Commission
Minimum Deposit: CAD $20
Overall Payout %: 96.49% (as at 22 May 2018)
Maximum Bonus Amount: Up to CAD $1000 in matching bonuses over first 3 deposits.
Customer Service Support Hours: 24/7 Customer Support, 365 days a year

Betway Casino is an impressive example of how to create a one-stop shop for all a gambler’s needs. The casino itself offers up a great gaming catalogue from UK master developer Microgaming. However, Betway doesn’t only offer casino games. Here you will also find an international poker room, a superb sports book for sports betting, a live bingo hall and an e-sports arcade where you can bet on different e-sports. In short, Betway will satisfy all you gambling needs and then some. Additionally, a Welcome bonus up to CAD $1000 is an added incentive for the bonus savvy gambler.

The Betway Experience

Betway has been on the Internet since spring 2006, and their experience shows in their easy to navigate website, their professional customer service and by the wide variety of gambling options they offer to players.

Betway’s landing page opens up to a classy, if somewhat standard, design with a black backdrop. From this landing page, you can reach the different gambling categories such as casino, bingo, poker and e-sports as well as create an account and find out about bonuses and banking options.

The casino offers up a variety of games in different categories, including 11 progressive jackpots slots, 8 roulette games, 180 video slots, 74 classic slots, 24 blackjacks, and parlour games such as casino bingo and casino poker. If you’re into video poker, you’ll find 25 variations, from Jacks or Better to Deuces Wild.

They also have a dedicated live casino, where you play in real time against real dealers over a video link, to get that full Las Vegas feel. The live casino offers classic table games such as Roulette, Blackjack, Baccarat and Casino Poker.

Game Variety

Betway Casino has a huge amount of different game types to choose from. The options include online slots, blackjack, roulette, video poker, keno, or even scratch cards and excellent progressive slots with giant multi-million jackpots like Mega Moolah, Mega Moolah Isis among others.

In fact, Betway holds the Microgaming gaming world record for an online slots payout, when British soldier, Jon Heywood won CAD $23.2 million on a single CAD $0.40 spin of Mega Moolah back in October 2015.

An industry-leading wide range of eSports betting options are available for eSports betting aficionados. In 2015, Betway moved into the quickly growing field of eSports and now offer a number of ways to enjoy these unique betting experience. Betway launched their eSports portal in September 2015, and have been offering a mix of pre-game lines, in addition to live and prop bets. Betway have made huge advances in the eSports betting world and are one of the undisputed global leaders of the many combined online casinos/sportsbooks that have realised the growth and potential of the eSports industry will have on bookmaking.

eSports markets available on the Betway website are evolving with the sport itself as it moves from that of an underground ‘movement’ and into a mainstream sport. Betway has continued its position a leading proponent for growing integrity within the eSports industry having become a founding member of the eSports Integrity Coalition (ESIC).

Betway Casino Sportsbook

The industry-leading Betway Casino Sportsbook offers many great sports betting options and great odds on virtually every sport you can imagine. Specifically, Betway do a superb job for Canadians, offering a full range of North American sports betting options available such as NHL, CFL, NFL, MLB and NBA.

Game Selection and Software

Betway Casino software is powered by the industry-leader in online casino games, Microgaming. The graphics are smooth-running and elegant works of technological art without buffering issues, and audio and game-play are both a joy to experience. There are over 500 excellent games for players to choose from including progressive jackpot titles.

If you have played online casino games for any length of time at all, long or short, you have either played their games, or you’ve heard of Microgaming, became a fan, and you’re hanging with patient excruciating for their next online slots release.

My free-demo experience playing the Movie-Themed Microgaming slot, Terminator II when researching this Betway Casino Review was great classic Microgaming movie licensed slots fun. However, it is not purely movie-themed slots on offer at Betway.

Betway brings players classic slots like Break da Bank, Tomb Raider, Thunderstruck II and Playboy and new and fresh titles like Playboy Gold, Monster Wheels and Moby Dick, are released into the Betway Casino on a regular basis. As mentioned earlier, keep an eye peeled for Mega Moolah at Betway Casino and maybe you will become another classic progressive jackpot slots winner like Jon Heywood and walk away with more than CAD $23 million.

Download Casino

Betway, like many newer Microgaming casinos, has made all their games playable directly on the web, and hence doesn’t offer a download option. However, as long as you have a reasonably fast Internet connection, this will not present any problems.

Mobile Casino

Many digital gamblers prefer to take their gambling out into the open air. Whether you want to kill a few minutes waiting for the train or betting on your favorite basket team from the lunchroom, handheld gambling is the thing for you. Betway offers a well-stocked mobile casino for their customers, compatible with all major cell phone brands, including Android and iPhone. Just log in as usual from your phone and start playing or betting.

Betway Casino Security & Fair Play

Betway Casino is certified by the independent casino watchdog organization eCOGRA. They monitor the casino’s random number generators as well as its payout percentages (payout percentages are updated and published monthly on the casino website – currently at 96.49% as at 22 May 2018), to ensure transparency and fair play.

Like most of the very best online casinos, Betway Casino is serious about IT security. Betway Casino protects your information and transactions with a 128-bit encryption SSL certificate, which is the same level of security as international banks worldwide, and leading shopping sites like Amazon.

Betway’s Welcome Bonus

‘GET CAD $1000 FREE!’ yells the headline on the Betway Casino Home Page. However, it’s worth a closer look at the details of Betway Casino’s Welcome Bonus.

How does it work? The bonus, as with many bonuses this size, is split up into three deposits.

  • Upon making your first Betway deposit, you are offered a deposit bonus of 100% up to CAD $250. This means that the casino will double any amount from CAD$20 to CAD$250 that you deposit into your casino account.
  • On your second deposit, you may take a 25% match bonus up to CAD $250.
  • The third deposit offers you a 50% bonus up to CAD $500.
  • The 3 match bonuses add up to a maximum bonus sum of CAD$1000.

At Betway, the playthrough demand on the bonus is 50x, which means that you have to wager 50x the sum of the bonus you accept (e.g. if you receive a CAD $100 bonus, you’ll need to wager CAD $5000), before you can withdraw any winnings made with the bonus money in cash.

Given the size of the ‘gift money’, this is not extreme and many online casinos have similar terms regarding playthrough conditions. To Betway’s credit, all of the terms and conditions are clearly outlined on the website to minimise any confusion.

If you want to get the bonus, you need to check the bonus box when you make your deposits. Betway has a fairly short time limit for the bonuses. All three bonuses need to be cleared and the playthrough demand met within 7 days. After 7 days, the bonus money is removed from the account.

As is the case with all casinos, only slots and some parlor games count 100% towards fulfilling the playthrough requirement. If you know that you will primarily be playing table games or live dealer casino, you should consider not taking a bonus.

Betway Casino Promotions

Betway isn’t big on special promotions, but they do have a system of loyalty points, and often they will offer double loyalty points when playing specific games. Check out the “Plus” menu option to find all recent promotions for the casino, live dealer and sports book.

How to Register with Betway Casino – A Step-by-Step Guide

Click on the ‘Register’ link at the top-middle-right of the Betway Casino Home Page (See screenshot below)

 

Complete Your Details on the form/s provided using the easily navigated drop-down and click-through menu pages (see below);

Hit ’Register’ and you are almost ready to start playing all your favorite online casino games online for real money.

You are now registered and can now begin to play over 500 of the best Microgaming Online Casino Games at Betway Casino. Good luck!

Banking

Betway Casino does not offer as many banking options for Canadian players as many other online casinos do, however, what they do offer is secure and very reliable.

Payouts take longer than most online casinos (4-6 days) depending on payment method. Betway Casino usually doesn’t begin processing payouts until 24-48 hours. Funds are usually returned via the original method.

If your original deposit was made with Maestro, Citadel Direct or PaysafeCard you may need to contact Customer Support to arrange an alternate method.

ID Requirements for Secure Betway Casino Withdrawals

Betway Casino will request your account to be authorized with your ID;

  • One form of photo ID. (i.e. Driver’s License, Passport or ID card)
  • Proof of residency within the last 3 months (i.e. Utility Bill, Driver’s License or ID card)
  • Credit Card deposits, may occasionally need to be accompanied by a photocopy of your credit card, front and back.
  • Additional documentation such as deposit confirmations, notarized identity checks, bank references and completed authorisation forms may be required upon request.

*We strongly recommend having up-to-date electronic copies of your photo ID readily available and on hand should you ever need/want to organise the fastest withdrawal possible from Betway Casino or other Online Casinos.

Customer Service

Betway Casino Customer Service Support Hours: 24/7 Customer Support, 365 days a year via;

A complete web-based FAQ’s section is available and should thoroughly answer most questions regarding Betway Casino.

Answer times are fast, and the support staff is service minded and professional.

Currencies and Languages

You can select your preferred language on the Betway Casino landing page, before registering an account. English and French are available for Canadian players, along with several other European and Asian languages.

When you register, you may also choose a playing currency. Chose Canadian Dollars if you are playing from Canada, thereby removing any unnecessary and expensive exchange fees. Other major currencies are available if required.

Our verdict

Betway is an impressive one-stop online casino with great variety of game options, the industry leader in eSports betting and has a wonderful sportsbook. It would be nice to have more game providers on offer, however, as the software provider is the industry’s largest in Microgaming, it is not a big issue.

Both Desktop and Mobile Sites are great as you can play immediately without any need to download thanks to Betway utilizing the latest and greatest in HTML 5 technology.

I was not a fan of the slower-than-industry-average payout times for Canadians. However, if you like the convenience of all your favorite gaming options on one site, you can’t go wrong with Betway. I would not be surprised if the Betway Casino payout times begin to speed up, as players are beginning to move away from traditional banks to e-wallets.

9 out of 10 from our panel of online casino experts.

Good luck and great gaming at Betway Casino!

Details

Opened In: 2006

Support Email: [email protected]

Support Phone: 1-877-811-2604